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It is proposd to keep it alive by short Adjournments till a sufficient Number shall arrive to proceed to the Business.

From The Writings of Samuel Adams - Volume 4 by Cushing, Harry Alonzo

Held by Adjournments in the City of Philadelphia, from the 4th to the 13th of June, inclusive, 1832.

From A Century of Negro Migration by Woodson, Carter Godwin

Held by Adjournments in the city of Philadelphia, in 1833.

From The Education of the Negro Prior to 1861 A History of the Education of the Colored People of the United States from the Beginning of Slavery to the Civil War by Woodson, Carter Godwin

Held by Adjournments in the City of Philadelphia, in 1833.

From A Century of Negro Migration by Woodson, Carter Godwin

Adjournments can be made in courts-martial from day to day, Sundays excepted, until sentence is passed.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir